Insights

We’re Tracking the Voting Trends
in Rural America

Every U.S. county and congressional district. Every presidential, Senate, and House race since 2008, including where Senate Democrats ran ahead of the top of the ticket. Click any county to see its full demographic, economic, religious, and rural-trend profile.

A public preview of the kind of county-level analysis The Rural Desk builds for clients.

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Dem margin (D% − R%)

  • ≥ +30
  • +20 to +30
  • +10 to +20
  • +5 to +10
  • −5 to +5
  • −10 to −5
  • −20 to −10
  • −30 to −20
  • ≤ −30
  • No data

Click any county to open its full county breakdown. On a phone, tap once for the numbers and again to open it; pinch to zoom.

Presidential margin

2024

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County Spotlight

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Election history

Margin, turnout, and vote share in every presidential cycle from 2008 to 2024, plus every Senate race since 2008, with a trend chart that shows the trajectory at a glance.

Demographics

ACS 5-year data: population, income, poverty, education, race, citizenship, veterans by era, housing structure, mobility, work patterns.

Economy & typology

USDA County Typology flags (farm, mining, manufacturing, recreation, retirement) plus 13-sector industry employment shares as comparative bars.

Religion & rural trends

U.S. Religion Census 2020 — top adherent groups, Catholic / LDS / SBC / Jewish breakdowns. USDA ERS migration, race-cohort trends, health metrics.

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What we build for clients

This Is the Public Preview.
The Real Toolkit Goes Deeper.

Internal Rural Desk dashboards include county-committee directories, engagement tracking, model residuals, and side-by-side targeting tools. All of it built from the same county-level data spine you see here.

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